The Tee Sheet
The 30A Golf Guide
Every course below books visitors online — no membership needed, no resort stay required. Drive times are from Dune Allen Beach on 30A’s west end; rates are each course’s published 2025–26 public green fees (cart included unless noted) and swing by season, so tap through for today’s price. Call us and we’ll help you fit the rounds around your stay.
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Our Partner Course
Windswept Dunes
Seven hundred and fifty acres of rolling white-sand dunes in Freeport, barely a rooftop in sight — and the course our guests come back talking about.
It plays like a links course that wandered inland — wide, windswept, quiet, and seven thousand seven hundred and fifty yards from the tips if your ego insists. Play the right tees and it is one of the most enjoyable rounds on the Emerald Coast.
There is no resort clatter here and no houses crowding the fairways. Just dunes, pines, and a course that feels like a private club and welcomes absolutely everyone. It is the round the low-handicapper in your group will still be describing at dinner — and the one we point our golf guests to first. Guests of Dune Allen receive a 15% discount on their green fees. We’ll coordinate all the details with you!
Drive: Freeport — about 30 minutes from your rental
Course: 18 holes · par 72 · 7,750 yards from the back tees
Rating: ★ 3.9 Golf Digest
Price: $140 + tax · $130 twilight · cart included
Call: 850-835-1847 · 11 Clubhouse Drive E., Freeport
The Heart of the Trip
The Sandestin Trio — 15 Minutes from Home
Three courses, one resort campus, a quarter hour from your rental — the backbone of every 30A golf trip. The public window opens 14 days out; set a reminder and book the morning it opens.
TOP-RATED PUBLIC ROUND
Raven Golf Club
Miramar Beach · ~15 min · 18 holes
The one to play if you play just one. A Robert Trent Jones Jr. design that hosted the Champions Tour, carved through pines and wetlands, famous for its island-green par-3 sixth. Worth every penny of the peak rate.
Rating: ★ 4.0 Golf Digest — best-rated public course nearby
Price: $109–$159 public, cart included
Book: Public window opens 14 days out — book the morning it opens
CLOSEST 18 TO HOME
The Links at Sandestin
Miramar Beach · ~15 min · 18 holes
Scottish links-style golf along Choctawhatchee Bay, just up the road — with water in play on 13 holes. Forgiving enough for the whole foursome, scenic enough for the group photo on the bay holes.
Price: $89–$119 public, cart included
Design: Tom Jackson
Book: Public window opens 14 days out
RENOVATED FAVORITE
Baytowne Golf Club
Miramar Beach · ~15 min · 18 holes
Sandestin’s crowd-pleaser winds between the bay and the beach with generous fairways and quick greens — 4.5 stars in Golf Digest’s Places to Play after its renovation. A step up in polish without a step up in price.
Rating: ★ 4.5 Golf Digest Places to Play
Price: $99–$119 public, cart included
Book: Public window opens 14 days out
Sandestin math: all three share one campus, so a 36-hole day (Links in the morning, Raven after lunch) never puts you more than a quarter hour from the beach crew.
Go On, You’re on Vacation
Bucket-List Rounds
The splurge rounds: country-club conditions, memorable designs, wide open to visitors. Book these first — they’re the tee sheets that fill.
COUNTRY-CLUB FEEL
Regatta Bay Golf & Yacht Club
Destin · ~20 min · 18 holes
Manicured fairways tucked between nature preserves and the bay, with a clubhouse experience to match — “Public Welcome” is right on their homepage. One of Destin’s premium tickets; treat yourself on the last day of the trip.
Price: Premium — rates shown at booking
Vibe: Private-club polish, visitor-friendly tee sheet
Book: Online, direct with the course
MOST LOVED IN DESTIN
Kelly Plantation Golf Club
Destin · ~25 min · 18 holes
Fred Couples’ bayside masterpiece — 4.4 stars across 2,100+ GolfPass reviews with 91% recommending it, the most-loved round on the Emerald Coast. The Saturday round you plan the trip around.
Rating: ★ 4.4 GolfPass (2,100+ reviews)
Price: From ~$129
Design: Fred Couples
Book: Online — early; visitors fill it fast
DESTIN CLASSIC SINCE 1978
Indian Bayou Golf Club
Destin · ~30 min · 18 holes · par 72
An Earl Stone design threaded with bayou ponds and wetland carries, and 4.5 stars across more than 2,500 GolfPass reviews — 93% recommend it. Semi-private, so members get first call on the tee sheet; book ahead and it’s one of the best-conditioned rounds in Destin. The long par-3 sixth with water down the right is the one you’ll remember.
Rating: ★ 4.5 GolfPass (2,500+ reviews)
Course: 18 holes · par 72 · 7,078 yards · Earl Stone, 1978
Price: Not published — call or check the booking page for today’s rate
Rentals: Srixon clubs $60 for 18, $40 for 9 — fly light
Call: 850-837-6191 · 1 Country Club Drive E., Destin
Low Stakes, High Fun
Value Rounds — Easygoing & Affordable
Quick rounds, smart money, and the best twilight trick on the coast — the ones to book when the budget (or half the group’s swing) is still warming up.
$59 TWILIGHT – BEST DEAL AROUND
Emerald Bay Golf Club
Destin · ~20 min · 18 holes
A Bob Cupp design along the bay and a local favorite. Play after 2 p.m. and the $59 twilight rate is the best-value full-length round on the coast — beach in the morning, golf in the golden light, back for a late dinner.
Price: ~$119 standard · $59 twilight after 2 p.m.
Design: Bob Cupp
Book: Online, direct with the course
THE FAMILY PICK
Origins Golf Club
Watersound · ~30 min · 10-hole par 3 · walkable
The perfect vacation round: a beautiful Davis Love III short course on 30A’s east end you can finish in under two hours. Kids, beginners, and rust-knockers all welcome — and it’s the rain-window round when the radar gives you a two-hour gap.
Rating: ★ 4.4 GolfPass (231 reviews)
Price: From ~$50
Holes: 10, par-3 layout · 2,323 yards
Note: Clubs available to rent · very walkable
36 HOLES, WORTH THE DRIVE
Fort Walton Beach Golf Club
Fort Walton Beach · ~50 min · 36 holes (Pines & Oaks)
The farthest course in this guide and the only one with two full 18s on one property — the area’s classic city-owned facility at the friendliest green fees on the Emerald Coast. Make a day of it: play both, eat at the turn, and you’ve had a full golf trip inside one afternoon.
Courses: Pines (tree-lined) & Oaks (open, breezy)
Price: City-owned pricing — the area’s lowest; see their site for current rates
Holes: 36
Call: (850) 833-9664
Rained on? Gulf Coast storms move fast. Origins’ ten holes fit perfectly into a clearing between showers — and every course in this guide rents clubs, so nobody has to fly with a travel bag.
Pick a Lane
Three Golf Trips, Three Very Different Weekends
You do not need all ten courses. Pick the trip that sounds like your group and build from there — every course below is on this page with a booking link.
The Buddies Trip
Two big rounds, one big house. Windswept Dunes Friday on 750 acres of dunes, Raven Saturday the moment the 14-day window opens, and the twilight nine at Emerald Bay when somebody says $59 out loud. Grill night both nights, scorecards on the fridge.
The Family Trip
One real round for the golfers — The Links or Baytowne, fifteen minutes away — and one everybody-plays afternoon at Origins, ten par 3s the kids can actually finish. The rest is beach, and that is the point.
The Value Run
Maximum golf per dollar: the $59 twilight at Emerald Bay, 36 holes in a day at Fort Walton Beach GC, and one proper splurge at Windswept Dunes, where $140 feels like double that. Three days, four rounds, no regrets.
Whichever one you pick, call us and we will help with the order of operations — which tee sheets open 14 days out, which courses to book first, and which twilight windows fit around the beach. 850.267.2121
Now Pick Your Home Base
Nearly 100 beach homes and condos on 30A’s quiet west end — most with private or deeded beach access, all a short drive from every course on this page.
PROMO CODE
GOLF20
20% off your stay on Thursday–Sunday golf getaways — arrive Thursday, tee off Friday morning, beach all weekend.
Or just call — a real person answers. 850.267.2121
The golf courses listed here are independent businesses. They are not owned by, affiliated with, or booked through Dune Allen Realty, and they set their own rates, policies and availability. Green fees shown are each course’s published 2025–26 public rates as of August 2026 and change seasonally — please confirm directly when you book. Ratings are from Golf Digest and GolfPass as of the same date.
